Salinas Makes First Start Since WCL Honor Tonight vs Portland
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The Wenatchee AppleSox open up a new month against the Portland Pickles tonight at 7:35 PM at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium. Reigning WCL Pitcher of the Week Hunter Salinas gets the nod for this evening's series-finale. Salinas leads the West Coast League with a 0.58 ERA and will make his fourth start of the summer tonight.
The Pickles took the series by winning each of the first two games, including last night's 7-2 win. The AppleSox drew nine walks but struck out 15 times and only collected two hits. Zach Toglia and Dakota Duffalo came through with the knocks. Toglia made just his sixth appearance of the summer for the AppleSox, but has at least one hit in all six games and his fifth-inning double was his second extra-base hit of the summer. Duffalo has now collected a hit in six-of-his-last-seven games and is batting .476 (10-for-21) in that span. Michael DeFelippi excelled on the mound, tossing two shutout innings in his first outing in which he entered a game without any runners on base.
The AppleSox look to limit the long ball tonight. Portland has gone deep twice in back-to-back games and six-of-their-eight home runs have come in five games against the AppleSox. Pickles pitching continues to stymie the AppleSox as Wenatchee has a .135 team batting average against the Pickles this summer.
The AppleSox look to Salinas to salvage the series finale against the Pickles. He was dazzling in six shutout innings against the Cowlitz Black Bears last week. He only allowed three baserunners, with one of them only reaching due to an error. Salinas previously faced Portland on June 4 in his season-debut. The right-hander from Colorado State-Pueblo walked one and struck out three in two scoreless and hitless innings on June 4. Since then, Salinas has only appeared in games as a starter. He has tossed two-of-the-AppleSox-four five-or-more inning efforts from starting pitchers. He first tossed five scoreless innings against Walla Walla on June 8 and his six innings against Cowlitz marked the most innings tossed by a Sox starter this summer.
Salinas is opposed by Chase Giroux from the University of San Diego. He’s also making his fourth start this summer and his second against the AppleSox. He began the season with four shutout innings against Wenatchee on June 4 and enters tonight with a 2.07 ERA.
Fans can purchase tickets for tonight’s game and all remaining AppleSox home games by visiting applesox.com/tickets.
Tonight’s game will be broadcast live on video with a synced-up radio feed. It can be seen on playsight.com
Listen live to the action on Sunny FM at kcsyfm.com on your desktop computer or by tuning in at any of the following stations below.
Wenatchee: 93.9 FM
East Wenatchee/Rock Island: 98.1 FM
Lake Chelan Valley: 95.3 FM
Brewster/Pateros: 101.3 FM
Okanogan Valley: 101.9 FM
Omak/Tonasket/Oroville: 97.7 FM
Methow Valley: 106.3 FM
Pregame coverage begins at 7:10 p.m. with the Horan Estates Winery Pregame Show and the broadcast wraps up with the Denny’s Late Night Postgame Show.
Live stats can be found on Pointstreak.
